Shingle assembly



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SHINGLE ASSEMBLY Filed Sept. 9. 1953 2 SheetsSheet 2 IN V EN TOR. Qr l//'//@ 6. Pea 9e BY dlzwk flab United States Patent SHINGLE ASSEMBLY Orville S. Roupe, Marysville, Wash.

Application September 9, 1953, Serial No. 379,230

2 Claims. (Cl. 20-5) The present invention relates to shingles or shakes for use in forming the siding and/or roofing of buildings, and more particularly it provides anew kind of prefabricated assembly by which a plurality of shingles and/or shakes may be factory-assembled as a unit forming a single panel whichv may be installed on the building sheathing in juxtaposition to similar units quickly and with a minimum oflabor on the job.

In this connection 'it is to be noted that the invention is adapted to be practiced equally well with shingles or shakes, properly so called, whether hand split or machine made, and without regard to any grooving or other natural or special surfacing, and without regard to the component material, e.g., whether wood or synthetic. The word shingle and its derivatives in the following specification and claims are used generically to comprehend all suitable types of shingles, shakes and equivalent elements.

A principal object of the invention is to affect economies in the shingling of a building While at the same time producing all the structural, weatherproofing and ornamental effects and advantages of a shingling installation made in the prior art manner by individual nailing of single shingles, including undercourse and exterior course shingles and building paper or equivalent'weatherproofing sheet material.

A related object is to provide easily attained uniformity in the relationship of adjacent shingles and groups of adjacent shingles by establishing such relationship and fixing it in advance as respects groups of shingles and providing the groups with special end or side margins which interfit with complementally formed end or side edges of other groups of shingles so that the junctures of adjacent groups will be undiscernible in the finished job.

Another object is to provide a preformed assembly of shingles including sub-shingles and surface shingles with an intervening layer of weatherproofing sheet material which will have its several margins well overlapped as the inevitable result of installing on the building sheathing a plurality of assemblies in edge to edge relation to form a long horizontal course with other courses extending above and below.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description of the preferred embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevational view of a plurality of shingles forming the undercourse of the assembly;

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the shingles of the undercourse with a sheet of flexible membrane material adhesively secured to them;

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of a finished assembly unit, showing the shingles of the exterior course adhesively secured to the membrane;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an area of building sheathing with a pair of superposed assemblies nailed thereto; and a Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to these drawings, Fig. 1 shows an undercourse of shingles 1 of any customary suitable material such as wood, composition or the like, arranged side by side with their butt ends aligned to form an undercourse butt edge 2. The shingles may be of unequal length, tapering to thin upper edges which normally will not be aligned.

The reference numeral 3 designates a sheet of flexible membrane, such as kraft paper or other building paper, which is adhesively coated on both surfaces, as for example with a gluefpreferably but not necessarily a waterproof or moisture-proof glue. Powdered casein glue such as that marketed by Borden Chemical Company, and plastic resin glue that is sold by the US. Plywood Corporation, are satisfactory for the purpose. The membrane 3 is provided in sheets of rectangular form somewhat longer than the rectangular assembly forming the undercourse, and somewhat wider, as shown in Fig. 2, and with the glue on one of the surfaces liquid or tacky the membrane is applied to the undercourse assembly, so as to project beyond the top and one side edge thereof, and to be flush with the opposite side edge and to leave the undercourse projecting beyond the lower edge of the membrane slightly, to provide an exposed butt margin 4, as shown in Fig. 2.

A group of exterior course shingles 5, which may be generally similar in size and shape to the shingles 1 of the undercourse, are arranged in side by side abutting relation on the top surface of the membrane in the arrangement shown in Fig. .3, being applied to the membrane while the adhesive of the top surface is liquid or tacky. This arrangement is such that the butt edges 6 .of the shingles 5 will extend slightly below the butt edge 2 of the undercourse shingles 1, with one exterior course side edge 'flush'with that side edge of the membrane which projects beyond the undercourse, and with the opposite side edge of the exterior course spaced inwardly from the opposite side edge of the assembly, at which the edges of the membrane and undercourse are flush. This leaves a very considerable margin of membrane and undercourse projecting above the shingles of the exterior course at the top of the assembly.

As shown in Fig. 3, the arrangement is such that along the top of the assembly the membrane extends beyond the undercourse and the undercourse extends beyond the exterior course; at one side the membrane and exterior course are flush and extend beyond the undercourse; at the opposite side the membrane and undercourse are flush and extend beyond the exterior course; while along the bottom edge of the assembly the butt ends of the exterior course project below the butt ends of the undercourse and the latter extend below the bottom edge of the membrane.

The two courses and the membrane are pressed together until the adhesive sets, which produces a comparatively rigid assembly that can be handled during transportation and installation on the job, without particular care to prevent separation or loss of any of the shingles.

Preferably, shingles of random width are used and arranged in such a way that the joints or most of the joints are broken, so that substantially all the joints of each course will be spanned by the body of a shingle of the other course, as shown in Fig. 3.

Each assembly is handled as a unit and is applied to the siding or roof sheathing 7 of a building in the manner shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Assemblies are lined up l9 1 1gi t i 1 dinally with their side edges abutted to form we ward the top of the wall or root, in the same manner as single shingles are applied. It is unnecessary to face the shearing with any layer of building paper or other windproof or waterproof material, since the function of that material is well performed by the sheets of membrane 3.

Installation is made by nailing through the butt margins, as shown at 8. The assemblies are applied to form horizontal courses in which the end edges of vertically adjacent courses are staggered relatively to each other, as shown in Fig. 4, so that continuation of courses, by application of additional assemblies along the length of the area to be covered, will result in side joints that are broken, exactly as the joints between individual shingles of each assembly are broken. The result is that in the finishedshingling it is impossible to discern Where the assemblies of any given horizontal course begin or end.

It will be recognized that the arrangement of projecting margins of undercourse, exterior course and membrane hereinabove explained permit the assemblies to be overlapped or interfitted with the side edges of the shingles of the respective courses abutted in engagement with each other and with the margins of the membranes overlapped to provide good weatherproofing. Thus, since the arrangement is such as shown in Fig. 3, the left band edge of a similar assembly can be joined to the right hand edge of the assembly shown, with the edge zone 9, comprising the flush projections of undercourse and membrane, covered by the edge zone 10 of the adjacent assembly, comprising the flush projections of the membrane and exterior course.

Of course it is necessary, if close fit of the contiguous edges of assemblies forming a horizontal course is to be attained, to make the zones 9 and 10 equal in width.

It will be noted that with the edge zones 9 and 10 overlapped and interfitted as explained, thefmargins of the membrane are overlapped, so that a good weatherproof joint results.

At the butt end of the assembly the shingles of the exterior course project to produce a heavy shadow line, best shown in Fig. 5, which conceals the undercourse from view and from the weather. In these butt ends of the assemblies the lower edge of the sheet of membrane 3 stops slightly short of the butt ends of the shingles of the undercourse. This exposes, to the fabricator of the assembly, the individual shingles of the undercourse, as shown in Fig. 2, so that exterior course shingles may be properly selected to produce staggered joints, 'which would be difiicult or impossible to do if the membrane completely covered the course.

I claim:

1. A shingle assembly comprising an undercourse of shingles of random width, an exterior course of shingles of random width having joints staggered relatively to those of the undercourse, and an interposed sheet of flexible membrane adhesively secured to said courses, so

proportioned that at the butt edge of the assembly the exterior course extends below the undercourse and the undercourse extends below the membrane, and at one lateral end of the assembly the edges of the exterior course and the membrane are flush and extend beyond the corresponding edge of the undercourse, and at the opposite lateral end of the assembly the edges of the undercourse and the membrane are flush and extend beyond the corresponding edge of the exterior course.

2. The combination claimed in claim 1, in which the upper margin of the flexible membrane extends beyond both courses at the edge of the assembly opposite the butt edge.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 396,292 Richmond Jan. 15, 1889 2,232,786 Kendall Feb. 25, 1941 2,285,480 Wilde June 9, 1942 2,532,017 Elmendorf Nov. 28, 1950 2,672,831 Fink et a1. Mar. 23, 1954 

